Research and education at IGP
Welcome to IGP
The department conducts advanced research and education in areas such as clinical immunology, medical genetics and genomics, pathology, oncology, neuro-oncology, vascular biology, molecular tools and medical radiation sciences.
Some of our activities are integrated with clinics at Uppsala University Hospital:
Clinical genetics
Clinical pathology
Clinical immunology and transfusion medicine
Oncology
Hospital physics
News
- Thirteen IGP researchers receive grants from the Swedish Cancer Society
- Inauguration lecture by Taija Mäkinen on 12 November
- Eight new grants from the Swedish Research Council to IGP
- IGP researchers receive million SEK grant from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
- Best poster prize to Birgitta Johansson
Newsletter
Twitter IGP
- Lyssna på IGP:s nya professor Taija Mäkinens installationsföreläsning den 12 november. https://t.co/597JP3gIhw
- I Vetenskapsrådets tilldelning av forskningsbidrag beviljas Angelica Loskog, Marcel den Hoed, Magnus Essand, Åsa Johansson, Olle Korsgren, Vladimir Tolmachev, Birgitta Johansson och Johan Rönnelid sammanlagt drygt 35 miljoner kronor under fyra år. https://t.co/VFaYo07hKN
- Anna Dimberg, Magnus Essand, Bengt Westermark och Elisabetta Dejana får miljonbidrag från Knut och Alice Wallenbergs stiftelse. Bidraget ska användas till forskning för att i framtiden kunna bota patienter med allvarliga hjärntumörer. https://t.co/C1Kbt6ttLQ
New research findings from IGP
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Mechanism for the formation of new blood vessels discovered
In a new study published in the journal EMBO Reports, researchers from IGP show for the first time a mechanism for how new blood vessels are formed and the importance of this mechanism for embryo survival and organ function. The results could be developed to control the formation of new blood vessels in different diseases.
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Women’s deep belly fat more strongly linked to diabetes and cardiovascular diseases
A comprehensive study from IGP, with over 325,000 participants, shows that deep belly fat is a major contributing risk factor for developing diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The study also shows that deep belly fat is a larger risk factor in women compared to men. Moreover, the scientists investigated how our genes affect the accumulation of fat and present a new, simpler method to estimate the amount of deep belly fat.
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Three new parts of the database The Human Protein Atlas
The HPA project has recently released a new version of The Human Protein Atlas. This is the most extensive update so far, with the completely new parts Blood Atlas, Brain Atlas, and a Metabolic Atlas, developed in collaboration with Chalmers University.